WACT Book Club | May 2027

Clown Town  - Mick Herron (352 pages)

Clown Town by Mick Herron is the ninth novel in the Slough House series, returning to the damaged, brilliant, and frequently disastrous world of Jackson Lamb and his failed MI5 agents. Herron combines spycraft, institutional corruption, political satire, and acid comedy, turning British intelligence into both a thriller machine and a grim national farce. For readers of the Slow Horses series, the book offers another sharp mixture of danger, wit, and bureaucratic decay.

A darkly comic spy thriller where failed agents may still be the only people worth trusting.

Author’s Biography

Mick Herron is a British novelist best known for the Slough House series, the basis for the television series Slow Horses. Born in Newcastle and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, Herron has become one of the defining contemporary writers of British espionage fiction.

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